And, if you want to assign a keyboard shortcut to it, in the new Keyboard Customization area, in the Edit area, assign the shortcut to Duplicate Clips. If the timeline area is in focus, the shortcut will duplicate the timeline. If not, the shortcut will duplicate clips.

Dwaine Maggart wrote:it's a context sensitive menu item. It only appears in the Edit list when you have the timeline area selected/in focus.

Yes, I understand this process, but the drop down edit menu is ONLY displaying "Duplicate Clip"

Though when I try it, a timeline is indeed duplicated, it's just the text is not updating even though a timeline is selected. Looks to be a bug.

Before creating this thread, I previously tried to create a custom shortcut, but cannot find "Duplicate Timeline" in the list of optional commands. It's not under Edit, and doesn't appear in a search in Keyboard Customisation. "Duplicate Clip" is there.

With the media pool in focus, the menu says "Duplicate Clip(s)" and acts on the Media Pool selection. With the timeline in focus, it duplicates the current timeline, and the text reflects that.

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

This is going to cause some confusion as a function that was once called "Duplicate Timeline" is now called 'Duplicate Clip(s)" I'm talking about something that I (used) to do often, which is to select multiple clips in the Media Browser/Pool, right click and select "Duplicate Timeline(s)." And voila, multiple timelines instantly duplicated.

Tristan Pemberton wrote:confusion as a function that was once called "Duplicate Timeline" is now called 'Duplicate Clip(s)" I'm talking about something that I (used) to do often, which is to select multiple clips in the Media Browser/Pool, right click and select "Duplicate Timeline(s)." And voila, multiple timelines instantly duplicated.

Like they said, Duplicate Timeline is still there.

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You first need to click on the Timeline area to bring it in focus and then the menu will change from Duplicate Clip to Duplicate Timeline.

I will agree that it is kinda weird behavior but the functionality is still there.

EDIT: Right clicking on a timeline thumbnail in the Media Pool should also provide the option to Duplicate said Timeline.

Ok, I've created a custom "command + D" to duplicate timelines in the media pool. It worked when I tested in once last night, but now it doesn't work properly either.

I've created a new custom keyboard, and rebooted. The shortcut appears in the drop down Edit menu (beside Duplicate Clip) but when selecting a timeline from the Media Pool then using "command + D", nothing happens.

If I manually select it from the Menu Bar...

Edit>Duplicate CliporEdit>Duplicate Timeline

...it works, but the shortcut I created doesn't.

If working on a timeline - and it's selected (red line around timeline window) - then the shortcut works. But not from the media pool/browser.

Miltos Pilalitos wrote:You first need to click on the Timeline area to bring it in focus and then the menu will change from Duplicate Clip to Duplicate Timeline.

EDIT: Right clicking on a timeline thumbnail in the Media Pool should also provide the option to Duplicate said Timeline.

Neither of these is true for me on Windows 10 Pro (1803) using Studio 15.2.

The menu selection remains listed as Duplicate Clip, and there is no Right Click>Duplicate option.

The feature itself works, but the labeling is not performing as described.

Same here, right click does not give me the option, and the edit menu shows duplicate clip even if the timelines is highlights. (not a big deal since duplicate clip does duplicate the timeline but still not the behavior that was described. windows10

I agree with the others that this is confusing. I would rather restore the "Duplicate Timeline" function in the contextual (right-click) Timeline menu. I get that the functionality is there if you highlight the timeline in the Edit page and then choose Duplicate Clip in the Edit menu.

This is one of those things I use every single day, and it's not a change that helps me work faster or better.

I cannot get Duplicate Timeline to appear when right clicking on a timeline like I used to prior to 15.2. Now, in the Edit menu, when a timeline is selected sometimes the Edit menu item says "Duplicate Clip" and sometimes it says "Duplicate Timeline". Either way why was the simple function of being able to right click on a timeline to duplicate it removed? It doesn't make any sense at all to remove that command from the right click contextual menu. I'd really like to hear the pros and cons you guys went through when deciding to remove the command to understand why it was removed.

One of the things I dislike about this new behavior is that if you create a timeline duplicate, that resolve does not automatically open it. Since resolve always opened the duplicate before, it is very easy to get confused on which timeline one is working on.I used to rename the duplicate to the next draft version number, now I actively have to remember to open it or I would work on the older version number and getting into a situation where version 1 is more recent than my renamed version 2 duplicate.

Oli Koos wrote:One of the things I dislike about this new behavior is that if you create a timeline duplicate, that resolve does not automatically open it. Since resolve always opened the duplicate before, it is very easy to get confused on which timeline one is working on.I used to rename the duplicate to the next draft version number, now I actively have to remember to open it or I would work on the older version number and getting into a situation where version 1 is more recent than my renamed version 2 duplicate.

If the timeline panel is in focus, then using the Duplicate shortcut or menu option will load the copy timeline. If the bin is in focus, then since you can duplicate any timeline (or multiple timelines) at any one time, then I don't see how having Resolve open the last copy timeline you made would be a good idea.

If the timeline panel is in focus, then using the Duplicate shortcut or menu option will load the copy timeline. If the bin is in focus, then since you can duplicate any timeline (or multiple timelines) at any one time, then I don't see how having Resolve open the last copy timeline you made would be a good idea.

Does not work for me on win10. I only get clip dublicate and the timeline does not open by default no matter what I highlight.

I assigned a shortcut to the duplicate clip command in Keyboard preferences (which is a much better layout in 15.2 btw). But it does not seem to want to work.

Basic Duplicate Timeline workflow seems pretty easy to me though

Select timeline to duplicateopen edit dropdown from toolbarclick duplicate cliprename if you preferadd tab to timelineassign duplicate timeline to new timeline tab done

admittedly not as quick as right click > duplicate timeline, but it has not disappeared, more of a concern is why the shortcut does not work when programmed in the new Keyboard preferences page would like to know how to fix that

ah I finally get it. Thanks for the video.When people mean highlight the timeline, then they mean to highlight the timeline itself, not the timeline "clip" and duplicate timeline brings with it the old be heavier that it opens the copy. So no bug after all. Sorry for my confusion.

Oli Koos wrote:ah I finally get it. Thanks for the video.When people mean highlight the timeline, then they mean to highlight the timeline itself, not the timeline "clip" and duplicate timeline brings with it the old be heavier that it opens the copy. So no bug after all. Sorry for my confusion.

I have been trying to get on board with the new Duplicate Timeline Command but am really disliking that when you use the command the new timeline "Copy of Timeline" will go into whatever bin you have activated not the bin where the original sequence lives. So if you are using the command while editing you end up with sequences all over the project.

I know this is a little thing but I think my preference would be for the copy to live with the original.

Marc Wielage wrote:I agree with the others that this is confusing. I would rather restore the "Duplicate Timeline" function in the contextual (right-click) Timeline menu. I get that the functionality is there if you highlight the timeline in the Edit page and then choose Duplicate Clip in the Edit menu.

This is one of those things I use every single day, and it's not a change that helps me work faster or better.

John Paines wrote:There's no fighting a preference, but ctrl-c/ctrl-v does it pretty quickly. Not good?

Taking away a feature and recommending another way to do it is not exactly a solution. Give us back the feature that was there -- one more right-click function is not taking up any space in the program or using any extra memory.

Oli Koos wrote:I think they should keep the new behavior, but should bring it in as an addition to the old contextual method.

Marc Wielage wrote:Taking away a feature and recommending another way to do it is not exactly a solution. Give us back the feature that was there -- one more right-click function is not taking up any space in the program or using any extra memory.

I think the logic is moving it away from a right click and into something that can be hit with a single keystroke can optimize the way that people work. I was super against this and some of the other changes at first, but now having lived with it for a little bit I think I prefer it as a single keystroke (I have assigned it to Ctrl-D) much faster then having to navigate through contextual menus.

In my mind the reason to not have it continue to live in two places is that it creates bloat in the program. I know this is just one instance, but I imagine this will not be the last thing they change the location of. Avid did a similar thing last year when they streamlined their menus and a similar thing happened. People were lost for a month or two and then eventually it just became the new normal.